Open AccessA RARE CASE OF SIMULTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS OF TONSIL AND EPIGLOTTIS
Author(s) -
Rajendra Saugat
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
zenodo (cern european organization for nuclear research)
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.5281/zenodo.208176
Subject(s) - epiglottis , tonsil , medicine , tuberculosis , pathology , anatomy , larynx
Case Presentation: A 46 year male smoker, patient comes in ENT O PD with complaints of fever last three month, throat pain from 15 days, pain and difficulty in deglutition7days His voice slowly changes to hoarseness of voice and later the family members are unable to understand the spoken words, after few days patient develop aphonia, Investigation were TLC raised otherwise normal heamograme ,HIV neg, HCV neg, sputum smear for AFB neg, sputum AFB not detected by CBNAAT(cartridge based nucleic acid amplification test)/gene xpert. x-ray chest was normal